Professor Daniel Bausch, MD, MPH&TM, FASTMH, is an American/Swiss physician-scientist trained in internal medicine, infectious diseases, tropical medicine, and public health. He specializes in the control of emerging tropical diseases, with over 25 years’ experience in sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America, and Asia combating viruses such as Ebola, Marburg, Lassa, hantavirus, and SARS coronaviruses. In addition to his contributions as a researcher and public health responder, Professor Bausch has a particular interest in the economic, sociopolitical and governance underpinnings that make people vulnerable to these dangerous diseases. He places a strong emphasis on capacity development in all his projects and has a keen interest in the role of the scientist in promoting health and human rights, striving to ensure that biomedical advances translate to better health for those most in need.

In addition to the Geneva Graduate Institute, Professor Bausch holds appointments at the National University of Singapore and London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Previously he held leadership positions as the Senior Advisor for Global Health Security at FIND (Geneva, Switzerland), Director of the United Kingdom Public Health Rapid Support Team (London, UK), Technical Lead of the Epidemic Clinical Management Team at the World Health Organisation (Geneva, Switzerland), Chief of the Virology and Emerging Infections Department at U.S. Naval Medical Research Unit No. 6 (Lima, Peru), Professor at Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine (New Orleans, USA), and Medical Officer at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Atlanta, USA). He is a past President and Scientific Program Chair of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene and serves on various Advisory Boards and Committees for the World Health Organisation, academic institutions, the private biotech sector, and non-governmental humanitarian organisations, including the WHO Strategic and Technical Advisory Group on Infectious Hazards with Pandemic and Epidemic Potential and the Scientific Advisory Board for the Global One Health Community.

Eyal Leshem, MD, DTMH is the director of the Center for Travel Medicine and Tropical Diseases, Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer in Israel, a guest researcher at the viral gastroenteritis team, the United States Centers for Diseases Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta and a consultant to the world Health Organization (WHO). Dr. Leshem is a clinical associate professor in internal medicine and infectious diseases at the School of Medicine in Tel Aviv University. He has lead and co-authored over eighty articles and book chapters.

Prof. Leshem received his medical doctor degree from Technion – Israel Institute of Technology. He completed a residency in internal medicine and a fellowship in infectious diseases at the Sheba Medical Center. His interest in tropical and travel medicine lead to him to work six months at the CIWEC clinic in Katmandu, Nepal. In 2014, he graduated from his training as an epidemic intelligence service (EIS) officer at the CDC. During his training he investigated multiple outbreaks including acute gastroenteritis, enterovirus D68, fungal meningitis and MERS CoV. Upon graduating from EIS, Prof. Leshem worked as a medical epidemiologist in the viral gastroenteritis team. His work focused on diarrheal diseases surveillance and rotavirus vaccine impact. Prof. Leshem continues to participate in CDC and WHO lead surveillance and evaluation projects assessing vaccine preventable diseases in Haiti, Burkina Faso, Togo, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, and Israel. Ongoing projects include evaluation of HPV vaccine, rotavirus vaccine, Dengue virus, Zika virus, malaria and travel associated infectious diseases. Prof. Leshem serves as councilor and co-chair of the Asia Pacific Travel Health Society Conference scientific committee.

Prof. Eli Schwartz, MD,,  DTMH, FISTM, FASTM 

• Full Professor (clinical) at Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University.
• The Founder and past Director of the Institute of Geographic Medicine & Tropical Diseases at Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, Israel.
• The President of the Israeli society of Parasitology, & Tropical   diseases.
• The past- President of the Asia-Pacific Travel health (APTH) society.

• Head of the Molecular Lab. for Tropical Diseases at Sheba Medical Ctr.

 Eli Schwartz is deeply involved in Tropical and Travel Medicine since 1987. He gained his field experience while working for several years in Asia and Africa. Ei Schwartz's main expertise is clinical tropical medicine. He published several books and more than 400 articles and chapters in the medical literature on travel and tropical diseases.

The list of publications can be seen in my Google Scholar site: http://scholar.google.co.il/ci...

 His textbook “Tropical Diseases in Travelers” (Wiley-Blackwell) was published in 2009.

His book (co-authored with Orna Schatz-Oppenheimer) "A Hidden Traveler"; Narrative of travelers with Tropical Diseases was published 2009 (Ramot, Tel-Aviv University press)

Dr. Kyle Petersen is an Infectious Diseases Specialist and Navy veteran. He currently serves as Sanford Chair in Tropical Medicine in the Department of Preventive Medicine & Biostatistics at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USU). Dr. Petersen received his Bachelor of Science in Biotechnology from Worcester Polytechnic Institute and his medical degree from Des Moines University College of Osteopathic Medicine. Dr. Petersen completed Internal Medicine internship at Naval Medical Center Portsmouth, VA, followed by training at the Naval Undersea Medicine Institute. His first tour of duty was in Undersea & Emergency Medicine at Naval Hospital Roosevelt Roads, Puerto Rico where he was the physician for Naval Special Warfare Unit 4, Navy Explosive Ordinance Disposal Mobile Unit 2 and Mobile Diving and Salvage Unit 2 Detachment Caribbean. He supported the island’s only hyperbaric treatment facility and also deployed with Seal Delivery Vehicle Team 2 becoming a certified submarine medical officer. Dr. Petersen completed Internal Medicine Residency followed by Infectious Diseases Fellowship at the Naval Medical Center, San Diego, CA. Subsequent assignments included: Staff physician at National Naval Medical Center Bethesda, MD where his duties included infection control chairman, head of travel medicine, and pharmacy and therapeutics committee member ; Principal investigator in hyperbaric medicine at Naval Medical Research Center, Silver Spring MD, where he also founded and managed the Department of Defense’s wound infection program; Executive and Commanding Officer of U.S. Naval Medical Research Unit No. 6 Lima, Peru, a 300-employee lab for tropical medicine research and epidemiology; Clerkship site director for Internal Medicine at the Washington DC VAMC and IRB chair of the USU Infectious Diseases IRB. He retired as a Navy Captain after 24 years of service. Dr Petersen comes to USU from Peace Corps where he was the Director of Epidemiology and Surveillance, providing infectious disease consultation, fitness for duty screening, healthcare data management, preventive medicine, and outbreak investigation for 7000 Volunteers in 60 countries.

Dr. Petersen is board certified in Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases, is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians, the Infectious Disease Society of America, The American Society of Tropical Medicine & Hygeine and is certified in Travel Health by the International Society of Travel Medicine. Dr. Petersen is author of over 40 manuscripts in the field of Infectious Diseases. His military decorations include the Defense Superior Service Medal, the Legion of Merit, and the Meritorious Service Medal with gold star. He has previously been featured in the LA Times, Forbes Magazine, the Washington Post, and was named one of the 32 top travel medicine providers by Condé Nast Traveler. Dr. Petersen’s research interests include leptospirosis, Elearning, and tropical medicine.